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Perspective and multi-sectoral effects Karl Claxton, Centre for Health Economics, University of York. www.york.ac.uk/inst/che All effects of social value should count Whats the problem? Costs and benefits fall on different sectors
What’s the problem?
- Costs and benefits fall on different sectors
- Budget set by a socially legitimate higher authority
- No consensus on how trade off
– Health, consumption and other social arguments – No complete, legitimate and explicit SWF
- Even if willing to impose a SWF
– Non marginal effects – Displaced wider effects – Dynamic effects – Social consensus and other social objectives
All effects of social value should count
- Multi sector effects and compensation tests
Conceptual framework
- Two sectors
– Budget constrained Health system – Rest of the economy
- Impacts on the health care system
– Health gained – Costs falling on the health care system – Health forgone
- Wider impacts
– Costs falling on patients carers – External effects on the wider economy – Net consumption costs/benefits
- Social values
– Cost effectiveness threshold (how much health give up within HCS) – How much (individual) consumption willing to give up to improve their health h
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Questions of fact and questions of value?
- When costs displace health (∆ch)
- When costs displace consumption (∆cc)
Fact : k = how much health displaced by increased HCS costs? Value: v = how much consumption should we give up for health?
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Possible Policy Net health benefit ICER
- A. Ignore effects (NICE 2008)
- B. Costs on the constraint
- C. Ignore the constraint
- D. Marginal rule
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Effects outside health - spectrum of policies
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Biases of policies (marginal changes)
- Bias in different directions depending on context
- Incentive for technologies to have positive health care costs
– Positive bias due to non marginal change – Policy D may no longer be the best (A when benefits, B when costs)
- A. Ignore wider costs
- B. Costs on budget
- C. Ignore constraint
Type of Technology Bias Decision Bias Decision Bias Decision More effective Net consumption costs Positive costs (NHS) + FP
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+ FP Cost saving (NHS) + FP
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Net consumption benefits Positive costs (NHS)
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Implications for policy
- Questions of value
– Formal prescription
- Requires specification of a complete SWF
- v is the measure of social welfare and presupposes a complete SWF
- k is simply an inefficient nuisance preventing welfare maximisation
– Deliberative approach
- Trade-offs still need to be made
- k is an expression of social value of collective health care
- v is how much of their consumption individuals are willing to give up to
improve their own health
- So good reasons why k ≠ v
Implications for policy
- Questions of fact
– Cost-effectiveness threshold – Is a change non marginal?
- Impact relative to budget (single and a series of decisions)
- How does k change with budget impact?
– Consumption value of health
- Requires social and scientific value judgements
– Net consumption benefits
- Cost of care not borne by NHS
- Effects on wider economy (external to patient and carers)
- QALYs include consumption effects?
- Measurement and valuation requires social and scientific value judgements
Other critical considerations
- Displaced external effects
– Compare to external benefits forgone – Danger of doubly false positive decisions – Improved heath on average offers benefits to the wider economy – On average a HCS perspective is sufficient! – Is a proper assessment of exceptions possible?
- Dynamic effects
– Price to appropriate any net consumption benefits
- External benefits become internal costs
– Investment Incentives (technologies, disease and populations)
- Impact relative to budget (single and a series of decisions)
– Spend less of on health care more on payment of rent (reduce health)
- Social consensus
– Potential conflict and long run credibility – Static and dynamic conflicts with social policies and NHS principles
Benefits and costs on multiple sectors?
- Multiple sectors
– Health (H) and Education (E) – choose proportion (x) of population i that receives intervention j within programme k – Each jk impact on outcomes and costs in each sector
- Need a SWF
– Arguments H and E – Weights
- Welfarist CBA
– Compensation (WTP) – Not shadow price costs
- Problems for CEA and CBA
– Full information – Estimates of respective thresholds
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What can we know?
- How much does it cost to produce health or education outputs
– Estimate the shadow prices, i.e., sector specific thresholds
- Specify a complete SWF?
– Value health and education output in terms of consumption – Account for the constraints in project selection
- Complete and legitimate SWF not possible?
– Allocation of resource though legitimate social process reveals something about a latent welfare function – Interpret shadow prices as revealed but partial expression of social value
- Common numeraire(s)
– Sector specific output – Sector specific resources – Private consumption (individual preferences)
Health Education Decision Compensation 1 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE >0 ∆NBH +∆NBE >0 Accept Non required 2 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE <0 .. .. 0 - ∆NBE from H to E 3 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE >0 .. .. 0 - ∆NBH from E to H 4 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE <0 ∆NBH +∆NBE <0 Reject Non possible 5 ∆NBH >0 ∆NBE <0 .. .. H cant compensate E 6 ∆NBH <0 ∆NBE >0 .. .. E cant compensate H
A simple compensation test?
- Sector specific effects at values implied by resource allocation
- Pay compensation for each project?
- Some accounting to inform next round of public expenditure decisions
A multi sectoral perspective
Jamie's school dinners Ritalin for ADHD Sector Net benefit Outputs Resources Consumption Health ∆NBH ∆H - ∆CH /kH ∆H.kH. - ∆CH vH(∆H - ∆CH /kH) Education ∆NBE ∆E - ∆CE /kE ∆E.kE. - ∆CE vE(∆E - ∆CE /kE)